I love when St. Patrick's Day rolls around in an elementary school, especially in the primary grades where imagination still runs rampant.
In one of the schools I teach in some teachers pretend that a leprechaun visits the classroom and does "silly" things like tipping chairs over, leaving books opened on desks, writing notes on whiteboards and spilling green confetti to make a mess. The little ones go crazy for this stuff! Their imaginations go into hyper-drive and dream up things you never thought possible. All of a sudden kids are screeching they saw the leprechaun run across the room or they hear tiny footsteps on the ceiling. The kids end up spending part of the day trying to find and catch the leprechaun. It's always great fun to watch!
Very fun, when I taught elementary school a friend actually used a stamp with little green feet to leave tracks.
ReplyDeleteI am in a new school this year that is k-8 (I've taught middle school for 8 years!) and I was surprised to see a leprechaun in our building today. But what was most surprising was the enormous button she was wearing that said, "Irish Whiskey Makes Me Frisky!" The little kids probably couldn't read it but my 8th graders were having fits over it!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! I remember when we could have fun at school. It was before our school became caught up in AYP and high stakes testing. Now there isn't much fun going on.
ReplyDeleteI think there was some green stuff happening down in the primary halls, but I have to chuckle each St. Pat's day at my school. We have a significant amount of discipline issues, so the principal always comes on with stern warnings about pinching. Not allowed in any form. Nada.
ReplyDeleteAnd I always feel like such a grown up grump when my fourth graders anticipate a leprechaun...and none visits them....
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